June 27, 2008

Go Ahead, Steal My Car

By BILL BLAKE

Video games don't make people violent any more than explicit lyrics make teens get pregnant

Any minute now, someone will steal your car and drive it recklessly through crowded city streets on the way to an abandoned warehouse, where it will inevitably blow up in an epic shootout involving missile launchers and strippers. I'm not joking. That is a scenario from Grand Theft Auto IV, which recently set the record for the highest-grossing first week of sales for a video game —

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